Singer Kelly Hansome has thrown a tribal grenade into the Nigerian music conversation, alleging that Flavour failed to sell out a London venue that Wizkid fills with ease because Yoruba fans would not buy tickets for an Igbo artiste.
Hansome framed the issue as selective support, not poor marketing or weaker demand.
“Flavour went to London. Flavour could not sell out the same venue where Wizkid sells out easily. Who are the people who were supposed to buy those tickets? Yoruba people. But when it’s an Igbo artist, they don’t want to buy tickets. That’s why he could not sell out the show,” he said.
He doubled down on speaking what he called the truth, even if it costs him concert tickets.
“If you don’t want to come to my show because I said something that is the truth, then why are we playing Fela’s music now?” he asked.
He added that Fela Kuti’s songs still blast in police barracks.
“Because I see everybody playing Fela, Fela. The police in Nigeria, the Nigerian police, they play Fela’s music the most. Go to police barracks; they are just dancing to it. They know the truth more than anyone.”
Hansome then tied that point to how some officers treat citizens.
“That’s why a police officer would say, ‘You know your rights, right? Don’t worry, when we get to the police station…’” he said.
His Flavour claim sits against a different public record. Flavour’s Afroculture Experience at Indigo at The O2 in London on May 24, 2026, was reported as sold out by Pulse Nigeria, Afrobeats Global, and promoter posts that told fans not to come without tickets because the show was fully packed. Flavour also sold out the larger OVO Arena Wembley in August 2024. Hansome did not name the exact London date or venue he was comparing with Wizkid.
Wizkid remains one of the strongest concert draws in the Afrobeats era, and that pull is widely credited to catalogue, fan culture, and global profile rather than a single ethnic bloc.